| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What human organ stores bile? | Gallbladder | 100%
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| Who scored the infamous "Hand of God" goal? | Diego Maradona | 68%
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| To what island are lemurs native? | Madagascar | 64%
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| What African country is completely enclaved? | Lesotho | 54%
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| What company owns Marvel and the Muppets? | Disney | 53%
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| Who was the first man in space? | Yuri Gagarin | 53%
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| What 1800s female fashion item used whalebones? | Corset | 46%
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| In what country is the Niger delta? | Nigeria | 40%
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| What type of music did Blind Lemon Jefferson play? | Blues | 38%
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| What poutine ingredient does Little Miss Muffet eat? | Curds | 38%
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| To what country are the Māori indigenous? | New Zealand | 37%
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| From what country is famed footballer Zlatan Ibrahimović? | Sweden | 36%
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| What instrument is Yo Yo Ma known for? | Cello | 33%
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| What novel series features the Red Wedding? | Game of Thrones | 31%
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| What British rapper wore a supervillain mask? | MF Doom | 31%
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| What city's history prominently features defenestration? | Prague | 30%
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| What is the largest lake in Africa? | Victoria | 30%
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| What country built a 5,000 kilometres long fence for wild dogs? | Australia | 29%
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| What empire's capital was Tenochtitlan? | Aztec | 29%
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| What artist performed the song "Space Oddity"? | David Bowie | 29%
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| What brutal despot ruled Uganda in the 1970s? | Idi Amin | 28%
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| What is the largest city in Puerto Rico? | San Juan | 28%
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| What is the lowest positive whole number written with a "D"? | 100 | 27%
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| Whose rank fell between daimyo and emperor? | Shogun | 27%
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| Whose speech denotes 87 by saying "four score and seven"? | Abraham Lincoln | 24%
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| What were Tsarist/Soviet prison camps in Siberia called? | Gulags | 24%
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| Who bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear in a boxing match? | Mike Tyson | 24%
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| What major Australian city is named after a scientist? | Darwin | 23%
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| In what type of region do xerophytic plants live? | Desert | 23%
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| In what city would one find the Guggenheim museum? | New York | 22%
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| In what country did Flamenco dancing originate? | Spain | 22%
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| Who wrote the Art of War? | Sun Tzu | 22%
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| Who landed in Newfoundland around 1000? | Vikings | 22%
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| What do virophages eat? | Viruses | 22%
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| Where was the final major battle of the American Revolution? | Yorktown | 22%
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| What are young urban professional of the 1980s called? | Yuppies | 22%
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| What invention does Frederick Banting usually get credit for? | Insulin | 21%
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| In what city was Leon Trotsky assassinated? | Mexico City | 21%
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| What is the capital of Uruguay? | Montevideo | 21%
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| What is the tallest mountain in Africa? | Mount Kilimanjaro | 21%
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| What is the actual name of the killer whale? | Orca | 21%
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| Who was Disney's first CEO and older brother of Walt Disney? | Roy | 21%
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| What is the most common language in Myanmar? | Burmese | 20%
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| What is the more common name for the clavicle? | Collarbone | 20%
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| What rice-like pasta dish comes from the Berbers? | Couscous | 20%
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| What country refers to itself as Hrvatska? | Croatia | 20%
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| What French colony revolted in 1791? | Haiti | 20%
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| What Caribbean capital was the title of a #1 hit song in 2018? | Havana | 20%
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| What Englishman is credited with inventing calculus? | Isaac Newton | 20%
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| Whose campaign slogan was "54°40' or fight!"? | James Polk | 20%
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| What is the capital of Latvia? | Riga | 20%
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| What is the Japanese word for freshwater eel? | Unagi | 20%
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| Hanger, flank, and Porterhouse are types of what? | Cuts of Steak | 19%
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| Who founded the Achaemenid Empire? | Darius the Great | 19%
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| The Chalbi Desert makes up about 18% of what county's area? | Kenya | 19%
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| What political group committed a genocide in Cambodia? | Khmer Rouge | 19%
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| In what city were there riots following the Rodney King trial? | Los Angeles | 19%
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| What comes next: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary...? | Quinary | 19%
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| In what country is most of the Danube Delta? | Romania | 19%
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| What was the name of Ho Chi Minh City in 1920? | Saigon | 19%
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| Who got stabbed in the eye by "Nobody"? | The Cyclops/Polyphemus | 19%
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| What country won the first FIFA World Cup? | Uruguay | 19%
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| What movie flop spawned a #1 hit song for Will Smith? | Wild Wild West | 19%
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| Who is Snoopy's bird companion? | Woodstock | 19%
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| What Batman actor was also a mayor in Family Guy? | Adam West | 18%
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| What leader reformed China's economic policies after Mao? | Deng Xiaoping | 18%
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| Who sang "Mellow Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man"? | Donovan | 18%
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| In what city is the Hagia Sophia? | Istanbul | 18%
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| What is the most populous island? | Java | 18%
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| What colour is associated with royalty and originally came from sea snails? | Purple | 18%
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| What American TV show starred Bill Murray and Bill Hader? | Saturday Night Live | 18%
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| What is the largest autonomous region in Somalia? | Somaliland | 18%
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| What country has a desert region called the Great Karoo? | South Africa | 18%
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| How is the letter "U" denoted in the NATO alphabet? | Uniform | 18%
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| What is the origin of loanwords schmuck, maven, and glitch? | Yiddish | 18%
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| What ancient Mesopotamian monolith resembled a pyramid? | Ziggurat | 18%
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